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ARTICLE VI
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SEC. 13. In case the office of any judge of the Court of Appeals, or justice of the Supreme
Court, shall become vacant before the expiration of the regular term for which he was elected,
the
vacancy may be filled by appointment by the Governor, until it shall be supplied at the next
general election of judges, when it shall be filled by election for the residue of the unexpired
term.
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SEC. 13. Justices of the Supreme Court shall be chosen by the electors of their respective
Judicial Districts. Judges of all the courts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be chosen
by the electors of the cities respectively in which the said courts are instituted. The official terms
of the said Justices and Judges who shall be elected after the adoption of this article shall be
fourteen years from and including the first day of January next after their election. But no person
shall hold the office of Justice or Judge of any court longer than until and including the last day
of December next after he shall be seventy years of age.
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SEC. 13. Justices of the Supreme Court shall be chosen by the electors of their respective
judicial districts. Judges of all courts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be chosen by
the electors of the cities respectively in which said courts are instituted. The official terms of the
said Justices and Judges who shall be elected after the adoption of this article, shall be fourteen
years from and including the first day of January next after their election. But no person shall
hold the office of Justice or Judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of
December next, after he shall be seventy years of age. The compensation of' every Judge of the
Court of Appeals and of every Justice of the Supreme Court, whose term of office shall be
abridged pursuant to this provision, and who shall have served as such Judge or Justice ten years
or more, shall be continued during the remainder of the term for which he was elected.
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